Mount Marks

**etracgal** · 07-08-2012, 04:30 PM

Hi all,
Well on Sundays dig in a new field, it made my day finding a really gorgeous Victoria 1800's Gothic Florin, my 1st

there I was smiling away looking at one side , wow I thought

turned it over and mmmm, looks to be mount marks

now I can't tell if these have melted into the coin or whether it's a removable melted something (I'm a woman-forgive my novice talk

)

Any ideas? or too hard to tell

Etracgal

**Kyle** · 07-08-2012, 05:09 PM

its a great find - a beauty of a coin....well donegood luck and hope you find many more - less than me - but more than anyone else

just kidding

**Davidhod** · 07-08-2012, 05:27 PM

Thats a lovely coin. The solder should have a lower melting point than the coin, or it could not have been done in the first place but... there are fluxes that lower the melting point at the join, so the melting point could be within 5 degrees c or so. The coin underneath might also have been filed to help the solder take better.

So it might be possible to melt most of the solder off, but it won't remove the marks altogether. I'd leave it.